I have been busy playing!  LOL  Most of my fun has been at ATC's for all  which I am finding very rewarding.  I am learning some new techniques!  Check these out...

These are 4"x6" and I bought some frames to paint and frame them in.  There is a very neat art co-op near me that I would love to try and sell them in.  I also plan on making some cards too. 

If you'd like to see more, you can check out my Flickr Photostream to see the rest. 

BTW there are actually 3 more of the Flamingo cards.

This ATC is a tri-fold.  I took the restrictor off a corner punch to make the slots to hold the front closed.  The tea cup is printed on glossy paper and gold embossed.  I used a gold ink pad to brush along the outer edges of both the tab on the front and the front panels.  The inside is stamped with a swirly gold background pattern and a added a tag with a quote from Chaim Potok inside. I found a simple silhouette of a tea pot and fussy cut iit so the flower would end up in the center of the tea pot.  Then I enamelled the heck out of it with UTEE.  I cut a snall section out of a doily and brushed it with gold ink to set the tea pot on.  All in all I am pretty please but I would do a few things differently if I did it again.  That's ok though i is all about learning.

I also finished my fatbook page for February.

This month's theme was tricolor and I picked red/white/black.  The white background actually has a textured stripe in it and I stamped that swirly heart all over the backgroung after I glued down the heart so the edges of the stamp run into the background.  The stamp is embossed with kalidescope embossing powder so it changes color as it moves.  I used a clip art silhouette of two dancers and traced them onto black cardstock and again UTEE'd the heck out of them.  I coated a aluminum tag frame with black glitter and let it dry overnight before adding the Dance tag.  This picture really does not do it justice.

I love the look of UTEE (Ultra-thick embossing enamel)  but there is definately a learning curve with it.  Thankfully a large jar is only around $13 and a 40% off coupon lowers that considerably. 

Now I am off to trim and punch some more blankets for Project Linus as all the ones I had prepared are finished!  We may or may not be getting some sort or winter snow/sleet/ice/rain event in the next day or so so I will just be staying home and taking care of business (making soup, baking cookies and sipping hot chocolate).  Watching movies and crocheting are the perfect accompaniment to that! (so Martha-ish aren't I?)

Oh!  The quote on the ATC says:

I spent my day today working on these darling little ATC's.  I was thinking that this month's exchange on WOC was for tri-color cards well it isn't.  This Month's theme is Coffee or Tea for the exchange and the lottery theme if 3-D. *sigh* Itis the fatbook exchange that is tri-color and well these don't qualify so...Now I have 3 darling little ATC's.  The dresses are made of a pink marbled paper and I chalked the tops just a little for some contrast.Then I took apart feathers and glued them on for the tutu's. I added a tiny rhinestone in her hair and on the front of the bodice.

The new challenges are up on CDAC today so I downloaded some images and pulled some papers for the color challenge to see what I can come up with.  I need to think a little bit on these as I need to step up my game considerably to compete with those ladies!  They are amazing!

Other than that, we were glad to escape the snow that hit the coast.  We are supposed to get some at least flurries tonight. My cousin let us know that he put down a deposit for a house in Myrtle Beach.  He didn't invite us though!  Guess I will have to cyber stalk him.

OK, off to get dinner out of the crock pot.  Corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potatoes.  It has been cooking all day and driving me mad! LOL